Dallas, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/14/2011 -- Introduction- Businesses choosing between SaaS and on-premise IT should look beyond SaaS’s rapid payback and quick implementation to consider its long-term costs and overheads.
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Ensuring that technology investments drive competitive advantage, and that technology spend is not all absorbed by routine and non-differentiating technology, is more important than ever. Developing repeatable assets, new approaches to service innovation and moving into adjacent segments are all being tried – as are many other approaches. What is clear is that selecting the right markets to focus on is more important than ever.
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Table of Content:
Executive summary
In a nutshell
Ovum view
About this report
Recommendations
The ascendance of SaaS
In terminology, the cloud embraces SaaS
Why now?
Which applications suit SaaS?
Don’t bother asking for an SLA
Limited liability
Ask for service histories
Expect and plan for outages
Integrating SaaS to play nicely with others
A common concern
Help is at hand
SaaS vendors are on the integration trail
Wait for the integration bus, or start walking now?
Integration as criterion
Other issues
Customization can be limited
Your pipes will be fat enough – probably
Ensuring an escape route
How secure is the cloud?
Protecting sensitive data is a priority
Supplier interrogation as security practice
Data at rest
Data in motion
Data in use
Third-party testing of the castle walls
Data privacy in a public place
The bottom line is always cost
What’s the rent?
Predicting break-even against on-premise costs
TCO is not the whole story
Implementation can be the clincher
Calculating on-premise costs
Hidden SaaS costs
Pay as you go? Read the small print
Commitment and named-seat catches
Scale blindly and happily
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